What is the database state?

The 'database state' is what we call the tendency to try to use computers
to manage society by watching people. There are many interlocking government
plans that do this. Together they mean officials poking into YOUR private
life more than ever before.

All the databases could be linked to, or indexed by, the
National Identity Register
(NIR) that is the main aim of the 'ID cards' scheme. Your
NIR number would be the key to your whole life. And by "information sharing",
what you tell one public servant could be passed to anyone. The government
name: "Transformational Government" sounds nicer — until you understand
what is being transformed is not government but its power over you.

The list is growing all the time, but NO2ID works with a wide range of other
organisations. We are constantly looking for more people who want fight one
or other of the the tentacles of the database state, as well as to
cut off its head, the NIR.

If you can help, please get in touch by sending an e-mail to
office@no2id.net —
or, if you can't give us your time, please
help fund the
campaign. Every pound that you give will be spent fighting
ID cards and the database state.